E-Warp Mechanical Keyboard

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This is a modified version of the [D-Warp](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4353202) keyboard by darrenph1. You can find my openscad sources [here](https://github.com/gluap/Dactyl-It-Yourself-Editor). I took some liberty and also slightly modified the library files of the Dactyl-It-Yourself and therefore my sources not easily mergable back upstream and accessible on my github instead. I did the following modifications: - Extra column for the middle and index fingers. - Modified positioning for the columns. - Smaller radius and steeper angle for the pinkies. - Adapted positioning and angle of the middle and index finger columns. - Modified baseplate to add a reset key (yeah, it's a proper key) - Using DSA caps (required redistribution of keys). - Add some holes on the inside for the display. - Countersunk and redistributed bottom cover screwholes I used blank noname DSA caps for all the character keys and self-printed the remaining keys using [KeyV2](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2783650) by rsheldiii with a filament change. (Fake "doubleshot" keycap printing method using prusa slicer configured for multicolour printing with filament change on a single extruder) The keys in the thumb cluster are Kailh Low Profile Choc V2 Switches Brown, their keycaps also printed from PLA using KeyV2 with an adapted DSA layout. The rest of the keys are regular Kailh Browns. The display case is a modified version of [this case](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2176764) by TAz00 (the modification being the cylinder for the mounting screw): The firmware I use is [QMK](https://qmk.fm/) and I use the keyboard with a (mostly) German keyboard layout with function keys on extra layers. No firmware included because if you build this you likely anyway plan your own layout. Before switching to the keyboard my normal 10-Finger typing speed was 80-100 wpm and it took about 2 weeks to go get back to 70-80 WPM and 2 months to get back to the full 80-100 WPM. The longest adjustment period was required for getting used to having the pgup/pgdown/begin/end as well as arrow keys on a separate layer. Typing on this is only slightly if at all faster than I was typing before on a regular, off-the-shelf, non-split keyboard. I had no complaints about RSI either before or after making the switch. Originally my plan was to tilt these at least 15-20° but now I've been typing on them for 6 months and never got around designing a tilting base. I actually built two of these, one for my workplace and the other for my desk at home.